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Throughout Japan the Prime Minister's thunderbolt took such potent effect that in several instances angry crowds mobbed Ronoto speakers. None the less impartial observers lent a sympathetic ear to stalwart, forthright Ikuo Oyama, Leader of the Ronoto. He swore that its members are not Communists but the unfortunate victims of a Government scheme to intimidate the Opposition...
Observers could not remember when Leader Tilson had paid Candidate Hoover such a forthright compliment. They concluded that the Hoover backing was coming to include industrial Connecticut; also that Leader Tilson was not far from midstream in the Vice Presidential undercurrent...
Although none could doubt the sincerity of bullnecked, forthright Lord Rothermere, persons of active memory recalled that while Signor Mussolini officially founded the Fascist movement in March 1919, this "founding" was essentially a renaming of Nationalist groups which had been assembled by others in the days when Benito Mussolini was an ardent Socialist...
...central fact militating against Candidate Hoover is that many people cannot understand what he stands for. He is no forthright protagonist of an ideal or program. He puts forth no clear-cut political or social theory except a quiet "individualism," which leaves most individuals groping. Material wellbeing, comfort, order, efficiency in government and economy-these he stands for, but they are conditions, not ends. A technologist, he does not discuss ultimate purposes. In a society of temperate, industrious, unspeculative beavers, such a beaver-man would make an ideal King-beaver. But humans are different. People want Herbert Hoover to tell...
...Charles Curtis, part Indian, regular-Republican senior Senator from Kansas, announced his presidential willingness in a forthright statement four weeks ago (TIME...